Prime-Time Families: Television Culture in Post-War America

Author:Ella Taylor

ISBN 13:9780520074187

ISBN 10:520074181

Edition:Reprint

Publisher:University of California Press

Publication Date:1991-02-07

Format:Paperback

Pages:208

List Price:$31.95

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Prime-Time Families provides a wide-ranging new look at television entertainment in the past four decades. Working within the interdisciplinary framework of cultural studies, Ella Taylor analyzes television as a constellation of social practices. Part popular culture analysis, part sociology, and part American history, Prime-Time Families is a rich and insightful work the sheds light on the way television shapes our lives.